tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post113721678762157597..comments2023-09-28T05:38:56.877-07:00Comments on THE FILIPINO MIND: IMSCF Syndrome As Part of Colonial Mentality, Mental Health -- Products of Cultural ImperialismBert M. Dronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1167314564838566652006-12-28T06:02:00.000-08:002006-12-28T06:02:00.000-08:00Wikipedia does not really give the exact estimates...Wikipedia does not really give the exact estimates on the Filipino population. Even their pages are with disparity. Some of their pages would claim that 50% of Filipinos have some Chinese ancestry. Some reduce it to 2%. KAISA put the estimates at 10%.<BR/><BR/>In Thailand, it is said that 60% of their celebrities are Luk Kreungs or "Half Thais". But we all know that Thailand was never colonized by any Western power. Many too go for the Luk Kreung look.<BR/><BR/>If you will really study the "racial" classification in Latin America, the segmentation is mostly thru CULTURAL means, not really through race/ancestry. Here's an interesting article: http://www.mexika.org/Mestizo.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1138659265412237632006-01-30T14:14:00.000-08:002006-01-30T14:14:00.000-08:00Hello Misotoma, Thanks for your responses. Except ...Hello Misotoma,<BR/> <BR/>Thanks for your responses.<BR/> <BR/>Except for one, I agree with your comments. That is, I do not know whether losing completely our Filipinonese is good. Actually, we may have to expound on this subject. <BR/><BR/>Frankly and personally, physical appearances do not matter to Filipino nationalism (as I have blogged about it). What matters is our honest concern and action to help in whatever small way we can to correct/improve our peoples' predicament. <BR/> <BR/>If I may talk about myself, raising our national consciousness as one people and acting towards the common good is the goal. Thus the objective of my blogs. This is aside from other material help, no matter how small, one can do right now: business to provide employment, donation of book/older computers to rural schools, scholarships, helping your favorite NGO or charity, i.e. PREDA, etc. <BR/><BR/>Whether this social consciousness and/or Filipino nationalism may lead to fundamental changes at a snail pace or a bloody revolution remains to be seen; maybe it will not happen during my/your generation. <BR/> <BR/>I actually found those two articles also quite amusing. How petty we Filipinos oftentimes can be. <BR/><BR/>RegardsBert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1138658866250935662006-01-30T14:07:00.000-08:002006-01-30T14:07:00.000-08:00Not all Filipinos share with this view of the auth...Not all Filipinos share with this view of the author. And they are many and just don't want to be bothered. They are too busy to be obsessed with such thoughts. Anyways, all those who deny their Filipinoness are busy getting intermarried with foreigners. <BR/><BR/>By third generations, their Filipinoness would be totally erased. Will this not be good for our Perlas ng Silangan? I think it would be good. Let the true Filipinos remained undisturbed. <BR/><BR/>-Misotoma25Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1138658808275209602006-01-30T14:06:00.000-08:002006-01-30T14:06:00.000-08:00There are many Filipinos like the one described ab...There are many Filipinos like the one described above in Cebu. I can understand why. Most cebuanos believed the national language should have been visaya or cebuano. I love to watch their frustrations. <BR/><BR/>-Misotoma25Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1138658694796807322006-01-30T14:04:00.000-08:002006-01-30T14:04:00.000-08:00This colonial mentality is rooted from the fact th...This colonial mentality is rooted from the fact that through the catholic faith, the "indios" were made to believe they were inferior, that without the Spaniard's religion, we would be "pagans". But look at the crowd in Quiapo, those who led the nazareno's procession in the street....are these christians or pagans using Christ image like an icon? Look at what countries these christians are going to work for as maids? In Hongkong, are they serving christians? In Singapore, are these Filipinos working for christians? Who are the people able to pay the Filipinos higher salaries for their services as domestics in Asia? <BR/> <BR/>The Filipinos are dying to be recognized for other than their kapanguan and dark skin. Without much labor and thinking, they thought they can gain this by claiming to be part mistizos. Too bad. I am part mistisos but I never thought once I am no other than anybody but a Filipina. Maybe I am like this because I was not raised in bondaged as a catholic. Why worry about heaven when life here on earth, we still have yet to master? Most Filipinos worry about hell. That's the secret of the catholic faith. Fear of hell had made it easy for them to colonized all the unfortunate Indios of South Americas and my PERLAS OF SILANGAN. Catholic doctrines, which mostly anti-christ, had shut the door for Filipinos to appreciate the faith of other people like the Buddists, the Taoist, and non-biblical religions. We became enslaved with t he "carrot/stick" approach to doing what is right. We do the right thing, not for righteous sake, but for some rewards after this life....no different from the muslim. No wonder, most Filipinos now could not tell a liar from those who are honest. They cannot tell right from wrong even though they claim they are educated. <BR/> <BR/>All these talks of what "colonial mentallity" is or not, is beside the point now. Everyone has their own agenda. Sadly, many emanates from a feeling of inferiority complex. They could not go on and do what is needed because they are obsessed with what other people will say or if they will go to heaven or not. They wanted praises and recognition but do not know how to go about real accomplishments. Mr. King, the civil rights leader, had done so by working to gain justice and equality for others, not just blacks. <BR/> <BR/>Our Motherland is wallowing in a sea of injustice and lawlessness, with mobs dictating the rules.<BR/><BR/>-Misotoma25Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1138658543805390252006-01-30T14:02:00.000-08:002006-01-30T14:02:00.000-08:00This is not true to all Filipinos. Maybe to the w...This is not true to all Filipinos. Maybe to the writer and his range of observations. <BR/><BR/>-Misotoma25Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com